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Migrating From Power Pivot For Excel Data to Power BI

Ilgar_Zarbali — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:53:58 GMT

Microsoft Fabric: A Complete Guide to Item-Level Soft Delete & Recovery (Preview) Much Awaited !

Murtaza_Ghafoor — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:53:57 GMT

Accidentally deleted a report in Microsoft Fabric? The new soft delete and recovery feature can help you restore it in seconds. Here’s how it works.

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

slindsay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:24:26 GMT

@geekkailash you are correct, you must have access to Copilot to be eligible to win this contest. You could do the rest of the end-to-end transformation and still submit - I am sure it would be a great learning opportunity! We'll have more contests in the future that don't include Copilot so you can participate!

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

geekkailash — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:42:30 GMT

Fabric Trial version does not support copilot. 😞

pbi-cli Gi Claude Code the Power BI Skills It Needs Semantic Models & PBIR Reports via AI

pankajnamekar25 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:29:47 GMT

pbi-cli is an open-source Python CLI that gives Claude Code 12 domain-specific Power BI skills enabling natural language authoring of semantic models via .NET TOM and PBIR report files. No MCP server, no sidecar process, sub-second execution. Install once, then just ask Claude.

Re: Power BI: Conditional formatting the Pie Visual

sande_ch — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:32:59 GMT

Hi @amitchandak,
That’s exactly what I’m doing in a report. It works fine in the desktop app, but it doesn’t work reliably in the service. In the service, the pie chart sometimes uses different colors than the bar chart. I've postet this here How to apply consistent category colors across pie... - Microsoft Fabric Community

Maybe you have a solution for that problem 😉

Thank you

Sandra

Re: Fabric Certification Exam Discount Offers

lilin2020 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:34:20 GMT

that is awesome. thanks!

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

slindsay — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:52:12 GMT

@venkat-subha - you will need access to a Fabric tenant (or a Fabric trial) to participate in this contest. We do have other contests that don't require Fabric coming up in the future - stay tuned to aka.ms/communitycontests for more info!

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

venkat-subha — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:36:49 GMT

What about the resources — do we need to use our own, or will Fabric sponsor them?

Re: 📢 Announcing the Fabric Semantic Link Developer Experience Challenge

Rufyda — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:31:07 GMT

Sounds like a great challenge!

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

MichaelaIsaacs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:46:18 GMT

Hey @geekkailash - thank you for your interest in the contest! To answer your questions, 2 and 4, there is no expectation for the number of tables, and the size of the dataset (but it's always recommended to wow the judges with the capabilitie of Data Factory 😊)!

Re: 📢 Announcing the Fabric Semantic Link Developer Experience Challenge

SamsonTruong — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:43:05 GMT

Super excited for this one, can't wait to see what the community creates!

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Using Microsoft Power BI

Jaywant-Thorat — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:12:35 GMT

When I first opened Power BI Desktop, I thought I was looking at a smarter, shinier version of Excel charts.

I was wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely wrong.

After years of using Power BI across corporate trainings, community sessions, and real-world projects — here are the 5 things I wish someone had told me on Day 1.

Power BI — Stop Writing Format Strings for Every Measure | Use This One DAX UDF Function Instead

tharunkumarRTK — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:10:36 GMT

Hardcoding format strings across every DAX measure is a pain. In my latest blog, I show how one DAX UDF handles all your numeric formatting needs, currency symbols, K/M/B/T scaling, bracket negatives, delta icons and more, all with just one DAX User Defined Function. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Re: Fabric Data Days | Join a Study Group

AdityaADKJ — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:22:07 GMT

I am kind of late but reached this platform, from next time will be come ASAP!

📢 Announcing the Fabric Semantic Link Developer Experience Challenge

slindsay — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:14:41 GMT

Do you have an idea for how Semantic Link could simplify, harden, or streamline how developers build and maintain semantic models?

We’re launching the Fabric Semantic Link Developer Experience Challenge, a community contest focused on improving how teams develop, test, document, and maintain semantic models in Microsoft Fabric.

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

slindsay — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:02:14 GMT

@geekkailash - there's no starter data for this contest, you can source your own! Completed work must be submitted by April 10. I have asked the product team to jump in with answers to questions 2 and 4 🙂 Stay tuned! Thanks for asking, I am sure others have the same questions!

How to Trigger a Report Refresh Programmatically in Power BI Report Server

SolomonovAnton — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:13:09 GMT

Sometimes you need a report to refresh not on a fixed schedule, but when a specific event occurs.

A common example is when the table behind your semantic model is updated by a trigger or an ETL process that finishes at unpredictable times. In that case, a standard scheduled refresh is not enough.

I ran into exactly this scenario in one of my projects. A monitoring system was collecting CPU load metrics and writing rows into a database table only when CPU usage exceeded a threshold. As soon as those rows appeared, the report needed to be refreshed immediately.

With this kind of logic, you cannot reliably predict the refresh time in advance. CPU load may stay normal for several days, or it may cross the threshold multiple times in one day. For scenarios like this, triggering a refresh through the API is a much better fit.

In this article, I will show a simple and reliable method:

Create a Cache Refresh Plan for the report
Get the refresh plan ID
Trigger it with a single PowerShell command

Power BI Report Server exposes REST API operations for Cache Refresh Plans, including getting plans, executing a plan immediately, and retrieving execution history.

Re: Embed Power BI Goals in your app

ElianaCoelho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:05:02 GMT

Hello @s-richert thanks for this interesting article.

I tried the "Embedding a scorecard with secure publish" method. However it doens't work:

When openening the page, we get the connect button

When I connected, the scorecard is not loaded, but a list of with all scorecards. Can you help me, please

@s-richert ?

Re: 📢Announcing our first Data Factory & Data Integration Contest!

HarshDubey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:19:08 GMT

Lets go